"The Malthusian theory," he wrote, "was one cause of the defeat of its own prophecies. It was the belief that population was growing too fast that operated indirectly to check it." Malthusian theory ...

Malthus' theory of population was used to support genocidal policies in colonial India. Malthus died before the time of the Irish Potato Famine of the mid-19th century, ...

THE MALTHUSIAN THEORY. Share full article. Jan. 10, 1886. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from January 10, 1886, Page 11 Buy Reprints.

You’d think after 200 years, folks would eventually say, “That Malthus guy? Kind of wrong.” Yet, with the (projected) birth today of the world’s 7 billionth occupant, there’s no shortage ...

Many years later, several economists have made counterarguments to Malthus’s population theory. However, the fixed laws of nature upon which he coined his theory remain certain.

Talking (or telepathic) gorillas, Malthus-gone-wild, a deranged armed man wreaking havoc on the Discovery Channel: It’s a crazy stew, and it will only get crazier as political opportunists start ...

Few scholars have been so maligned as Thomas Robert Malthus. Charles Dickens parodied him in Scrooge’s invective, “If they would rather die … they had better do it and leave off the surplus ...

The planners and economists in Pakistan had been very fond of quoting Malthus, who had presented his well-known population theory in 1798. Malthus had painted a gloomy picture by saying that while ...